INTRO-The stories contained in this one were largely written during the months of November and December of 1999 while on a two month journey from Richmond. I first learned of the WTO actions in Seattle several months earlier and had a gut level feeling that I had to be there. I'm not sure what made me think that Seattle would be any different than countless other over-hyped, under attended mass rallies of the East Coast variety, but something pulled me there. What I lived and witnessed there for that short period of time was the culmination of tens of thousands of folks collective dreams and desires being realized and the reclamation of our lives in the face of one of the most powerful and global threatening entities ever known to human-kind. I returned to Richmond in January to a completely revamped and revitalized sense of struggle.